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Back to index of Nerve 17 - Winter 2010
1911 Transport Strike Calendar - May 2011
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The Liver Building opened 19 July 1911 - The Birds were unfinished (picture from Bluecoat Press) |
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| Also in this month... Co-operative Union reports that Liverpool has 13,000 members (17th) Havelock Wilson calls on shipowners to set up conciliation boards (23rd) Carters Union warn members not to work with carters recruited through Labour Exchange (26th) |
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| 2 | 3 Liverpool and District Church Socialist League Annual Meeting at Common Hall | 4 Labour officials criticise State Insurance plans as employee contributions will be too high | 5 Women's Enfranchisement Bill gets Commons second reading but will not become law | 6 | 7 | 8 |
| 9 Reported that international seamen’s strike set for 29th by secret meeting last week | 10 Trades Council notes Royal Liver paid extra £20,000 to meet union rates on Liver Building | 11 | 12 | 13 Transport Workers Federation Secretary visits Liverpool to organise demo and first national conference | 14 | 15 |
| 16 | 17 Meeting of Peace Propaganda in Byrom Hall. Resolution against war and increasing armaments | 18 | 19 Adele Pankhurst tells suffragette meeting there will be another London demo soon | 20 Railway Clerks' Association Annual Conference in Liverpool calls for rail nationalisation | 21 | 22 Seamen’s union General Secretary complains Shipping Federation will not meet union delegates |
| 23 Seamens union leader warns if there is a dispute he will petition Govt not to assist owners | 24 Seamen's union Canning Place office displays notice: "Sailors and Firemen - watch for the signal" | 25 300 platers helpers at Cammell Lairds strike for wage increase | 26 Striking platers at Cammell Lairds are joined on strike by 590 general labourers | 27 Cammell Lairds crane-drivers strike | 28 | 29 |
| 30 | 31 Feeder marches from North and South docks to major transport workers' rally on St George's Plateau |  |
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